Higher sales volumes and airfares pushed the dollar value of airline tickets sold by U.S.-based travel agencies in October up 7 percent year over year... KEEP READING

WestJet and Air France-KLM now allow reciprocal point redemption for their frequent-flyer programs, the carriers announced. They began reciprocal... KEEP READING

Alaska Airlines is developing direct-channel content using Farelogix's FLX Merchandise engine. Farelogix CEO Jim Davidson said the carrier, which has... KEEP READING

Alitalia says introducing a surcharge for global distribution system bookings, as its partner Air France-KLM has done, is "on the table." Still, the... KEEP READING

Spirit Airlines—no, that was not a typo—was the most on-time major North American carrier in October, getting 87.8 percent of flights to the gate within... KEEP READING

Flight delay predictor Flightsayer will provide data to Adelman Travel's virtual assistant mobile app AVA. Flightsayer—which uses data like weather and... KEEP READING

Qatar Airways announced it has acquired 9.6 percent, or about 378 million, of Cathay Pacific's shares. It bought them from Hong Kong's Kingboard... KEEP READING

Next summer, Southwest Airlines will bulk up its service out of the Bay Area's Oakland International Airport, including daily nonstop service to San... KEEP READING

In April, Air France-KLM will begin charging an 11 euro fee on global distribution bookings, becoming the last of the Big Three European carriers to... KEEP READING

Global airline passenger demand growth slowed to 5.7 percent year over year in September, its slowest year-over-year rate of growth since February,... KEEP READING